If you asked 100 people on the street who Lucifer is, you’d probably get about 99 of them responding with, “the devil”. Lucifer is the devil’s real name, right? Like when he was an angel in heaven, everybody called him Lucifer?

Actually, there are some misconceptions, rumors, and myths that Christians believe about the devil that really have little or no biblical foundation. The next time you read your “whole bible in a year”, as I’m sure everybody does, see if you can find the word, Lucifer, in it anywhere. If you don’t want to wait a year to find the answer, just check your concordance. Most of you will never see it. I say “most”, because you will only find it one translation, the King James Version (and New KJV), and I’m guessing most people reading this do not read the KJV. So where does it come from? The KJV only uses the term, “Lucifer”, once, in Isaiah 14:12.

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

The other English translations use terms such as “morning star”, “star of the morning”, “Daystar”, “light bringer”, etc. When the King James translators were translating the Old Testament in the early 1600’s, they came to this verse, and for whatever reason, instead of translating it from the Hebrew into English, they decided to use the word from the Latin translation of the Old Testament (Latin Vulgate). Lucifer is a Latin word that means “bringer of light” or “light bearer”. So they took it, capitalized it, and wah-lah, now it’s the devil’s name. Even Jerome, who originally translated the Latin version in the 5th century, never intended to imply that Lucifer was the devil’s proper name. So to answer the first question, there is very little chance of Lucifer actually being the devil’s real name, unless it’s just by some wild coincidence.

But wasn’t he the worship leader in heaven? We’ve heard that right? Ezekiel 28:13 is the foundation for this belief, and again you will only find it in the KJV’s. It talks about the King of Tyre (who some say represents Satan) and references “The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes”. So once again, wah-lah, we get, Satan was the worship leader in heaven. Big leap huh? Everything we hear is not always true.